Publications by authors named "BARTH G"

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  • 1-4% of children and adolescents worldwide suffer from OCD, and many do not have access to traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), making online videoconferencing (vCBT) a promising alternative for therapy in a familiar environment.
  • A study with 20 patients aged 12-18 conducted 14 weekly vCBT sessions, using a multimodal sensor system to monitor physiological and behavioral responses, finding that both patients and parents found the treatment feasible and easy to understand.
  • Results pointed to significant reductions in OCD symptoms, with an average CY-BOCS score decrease of over 50%, and improvements in family life, indicating that vCBT could be a successful treatment method for
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  • The study examines a sensor-based eHealth treatment for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), highlighting its potential to provide therapy in home settings and collect data on patients' emotional and physical states.
  • It involved 20 adolescents undergoing 14 video sessions of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), using various sensors to track eye movements, heart rate, and behavior patterns during treatment.
  • Results showed high participant satisfaction with this approach, improved therapeutic relationships, and a reduction in OCD symptoms, alongside a discussion of important factors for implementing sensor-supported therapy for young patients.
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This study aimed to evaluate the impact of long-term liquid dairy manure (LDM) application on the activity and structure of soil bacterial and archaea communities in two cropping seasons over 1 year of a no-till crop rotation system. The experiment was run in a sandy clay loam texture Oxisol, in Brazil, including LDM doses of 60, 120, and 180 m ha year, installed in 2005. Soil sampling was conducted during spring 2018 and autumn 2019 at 0-10-cm depth.

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  • - Acquiring skills in diagnostic ultrasound is essential for modern healthcare, but traditional teaching methods often lack sufficient hands-on practice, which is crucial for mastering anatomy interpretation and scan techniques.
  • - The paper investigates different teaching roles in ultrasound education, including physicians, anatomists, peer tutors, and sonographers, emphasizing their importance in providing diverse support and practical experience.
  • - A well-structured ultrasound curriculum that incorporates various teaching methods and peer-assisted learning can enhance educational outcomes and ease faculty workload, highlighting the need for thorough training for all instructors involved.
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  • Minors need special protection in research, so studies involving them are often avoided, leading to incomplete data for treatment.
  • The CARE study shows that including minors in research is important for fair and effective healthcare, considering their unique developmental needs.
  • The article suggests ethical principles to support including minors and proposes protective measures to ensure their safety during research.
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  • Doctors and psychologists in psychiatric hospitals start teaching right away, even if they haven't learned how to teach properly.
  • A survey was sent out to gather opinions from teachers at medical schools in German-speaking countries about the skills and training they need for teaching.
  • Most respondents agreed that learning how to teach well is very important, showing strong interest in practical teaching methods like bedside teaching and improving communication skills.
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As an extension of the clinical examination and as a diagnostic and problem-solving tool, ultrasound has become an established technique for clinicians. A prerequisite for high-quality clinical ultrasound practice is adequate student ultrasound training. In light of the considerable heterogeneity of ultrasound curricula in medical studies worldwide, this review presents basic principles of modern medical student ultrasound education and advocates for the establishment of an ultrasound core curriculum embedded both horizontally and vertically in medical studies.

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Psychiatric emergencies have increased in recent decades, particularly with the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and far too little is known about the backgrounds of these emergencies. In this study, we investigated the extent to which the number of psychiatric emergencies changed during and in the aftermath of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Tübingen. We considered age and psychiatric diagnoses.

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Lowe Syndrome (LS) is a condition due to mutations in the gene, characterized by congenital cataracts, intellectual disability, and kidney malfunction. Unfortunately, patients succumb to renal failure after adolescence. This study is centered in investigating the biochemical and phenotypic impact of patient's OCRL1 variants (OCRL1).

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In autism spectrum disorders (ASD), social communication and stereotypical behaviour patterns affect all areas of life, and can result in a decrease of its quality. Previous research has shown promising results for the social skills of groups of children with ASD. Furthermore, a pilot study of the Tübingen Group Training for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TüTASS) has demonstrated that mindfulness-based elements achieve additional positive effects.

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Background: Internet Use Disorder (IUD), Gaming Disorder (GD), and Social Network Use Disorder (SNUD) are common phenomena among adolescents and young adults. Negative consequences of such disorders can be observed in the individuals themselves and in the family system. Although parents can influence their children in many ways, they are rarely considered in interventions.

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In this manuscript, we describe the soft- and hardware architecture as well as the implementation of a modern Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) system for sensor-assisted telepsychotherapy. It enables telepsychotherapy sessions in which the patient exercises therapy-relevant behaviors in their home environment under the remote supervision of the therapist. Wearable sensor information (electrocardiogram (ECG), movement sensors, and eye tracking) is streamed in real time to the therapist to deliver objective information about specific behavior-triggering situations and the stress level of the patients.

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  • Digital health technology enhances psychotherapy for children and adolescents with OCD by offering personalized therapy options, especially through Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, which can be applied in real-life settings rather than just clinical environments.
  • The SSTeP KiZ study combines video therapy with wearable sensors to track physiological and behavioral responses, allowing for a more accurate assessment of stress levels during and outside therapy sessions.
  • Initial pilot study findings indicate that using multiple sensor modalities can effectively detect and quantify stress and anxiety, paving the way for personalized treatment approaches based on individual compulsive behavior in real-world scenarios.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergencies During the Second Wave of the SARS-CoV2-19 Pandemic: Findings from the Tübingen University Hospital Child and adolescent psychiatric emergencies during the SARS-CoV2-19 pandemic are part of a controversial discussion. This study investigates the volume of such emergencies, the age of the patients, and the diagnoses of eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) that occurred at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Center (CAP) Tübingen during the second wave of the pandemic compared to the year before. We evaluated data on all emergencies at CAP Tübingen (telephone calls, outpatients, patient admissions) from 10/2019-01/2020 (first time period) and 10/2020-01/2021 (second wave).

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Despite ultrasound being an inherent part of medical education, only a few German medical schools have established a comprehensive ultrasound curriculum. This study aimed to explore medical students' perspectives on ultrasound in medical education (USMed). Between January 1, 2019 und June 30, 2019, an online survey was conducted among German medical students via the students' associations and their respective teaching facilities.

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New Yarrowia lipolytica strains for the co-expression of steroidogenic mammalian proteins were obtained in this study. For this purpose, a two-step approach for constructing recombinant strains that permits the simple introduction of several expression cassettes encoding heterologous proteins into the yeast genome was successfully applied. This study tested two series of integrative multi-copy expression vectors containing cDNAs for the mature forms of P450scc system components (cytochrome P450scc (CYP11A1), adrenodoxin reductase, adrenodoxin, or fused adrenodoxin-P450scc) or for P45017α (CYP17A1) under the control of the isocitrate lyase promoter pICL1, which were constructed using the basic plasmids p64PT or p67PT (rDNA or the long terminal repeat (LTR) zeta of Ylt1 as integration targeting sequences and ura3d4 as a multi-copy selection marker).

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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) represent a set of long-lasting severe neurodevelopmental conditions and effective therapeutic interventions are needed. Recent research points to the importance of including mindfulness-based elements to improve emotion and body perception in the psychotherapy of patients with ASD. Therefore, we developed a structured group psychotherapy program The Tübinger Training for Autism Spectrum Disorders (Tübinger Training für Autismus-Spektrum-Störungen; TüTASS) which focuses on mindfulness-based training elements.

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Parental factors in internet and computer game addiction in adolescence: An overview Internet-related disorders (IRD) in adolescents and young adults are closely linked to family factors. However, few research and review articles include the family. To this end, = 87 scientific papers were integrated into the literature review.

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Background: Cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among Peruvian women. Barriers at multiple levels impact effective screening and treatment, including a lack of knowledge about cervical cancer and how regular screening can reduce morbidity and mortality through earlier detection. The aim of this study is to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding cervical cancer and its prevention in the peri-urban communities of Oasis and Pampas in southern Lima, Peru that can be used to inform future campaigns about cervical cancer prevention.

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Sleep is assumed to support memory through an active systems consolidation process that does not only strengthen newly encoded representations but also facilitates the formation of more abstract gist memories. Studies in humans and rodents indicate a key role of the precise temporal coupling of sleep slow oscillations (SO) and spindles in this process. The present study aimed at bolstering these findings in typically developing (TD) children, and at dissecting particularities in SO-spindle coupling underlying signs of enhanced gist memory formation during sleep found in a foregoing study in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without intellectual impairment.

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The transport of phosphorus (P) from agricultural fields to watercourses is a worldwide concern. Development of tools to evaluate the environmental P risk is required to assist farmers and field technicians to recommend best management practices. The objective of this work was to develop and test a new approach to assess P loss vulnerability for agricultural conservationist systems in southern Brazil using easily obtainable soil attributes: cover crop residue (CCR), soil organic carbon (OC), visual evaluation of soil structure (VESS), soil test P (STP) and clay content.

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Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, including emotional dysregulation, and symptoms have been suspected to partly arise from impaired formation of memory representations regulating these behaviours. Sleep, which is subjectively impaired in ASD, is critical for forming long-term memories and abstracted gist-based representations. We expected a generally reduced memory benefit from sleep in children with ASD, and a diminished enhancement of gist representations, in particular.

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Background: pH is frequently reported as the main driver for prokaryotic community structure in soils. However, pH changes are also linked to "spillover effects" on other chemical parameters (e.g.

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